RolloTreadway on Nostr: The #TuneTuesday theme is #Tearjerker. This is a song that, when I first heard it, ...
The #TuneTuesday theme is #Tearjerker. This is a song that, when I first heard it, made me sob. I was driving at the time and had to pull over.
The final line 'God bless you sir, at least you tried' remains completely heartbreaking all these years later.
The Unthanks - The Testimony of Patience Kershaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhACB1ZPQM
(should explain briefly: the song was originally written by Frank Higgins, with all the lyrics coming from testimony given by children who worked in mines in 1842, particularly Patience Kershaw who was 17 at the time and had been working for several years pushing coal carts underground twelve hours a day)
The final line 'God bless you sir, at least you tried' remains completely heartbreaking all these years later.
The Unthanks - The Testimony of Patience Kershaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhACB1ZPQM
(should explain briefly: the song was originally written by Frank Higgins, with all the lyrics coming from testimony given by children who worked in mines in 1842, particularly Patience Kershaw who was 17 at the time and had been working for several years pushing coal carts underground twelve hours a day)